Uhhhh, Liz - it wages rise proportionally to production then you haven’t increased productivity. It takes a Harvard grad to miss something that obvious.
Okay then; let’s raise the minimum wage to $22/hr and set a maximum of $22/hr for all elected or appointed public officials — with no overtime permitted. Fair trade-off?
And when that becomes a reality, there's no way any American could conceivably take 5 weeks vacation on their current salaries. American was built on the middle class. There's no reason that every working American shouldn't be making a middle-class income. Since we know that libdems consider rich to be those who earn $250,000 per year, a fair compromise would be to mandate a federal minimum salary of $100,000 - middle way between impoverished and rich. Then they would be able to afford their living expenses and their 5 weeks of vacations.
And a Beemer. Everybody needs one.
And a house in the suburbs.
And a high end cell phone
And broadband internet.
And a 80 inch flat screen
22, WHAT, can we please get common sense back to this country?
Hell this party can;t even call them what they are, no theyr;e not liberals, or progressives, they;re socialists and communists
Sorry, it hurts my head to try and think like a liberal. My logical brain keep getting in the way.
I call Miss Wigwam’s $22/hour and raise the proposal to $750/hour. If, according to this socialist idiot’s economic worldview, there are no consequences to raising the minimum wage other than benefitting the workers, why not be stingy?
When the unemployment rate goes to 99%, she’ll blame it on greed rather than her commie economics.
She’s just too stupid to know that she’s putting the very people out of work who only qualify for relatively low/minimum wage jobs.
If the minimum wage is $22 an hour ... how much would it be per hour to NOT work? Half the population cares more about this number than minimum wage.
Raise the minimum wage to whatever you want. Just remember that those earning that minimum wage won’t be able to afford to buy anything, because the cost of everything will be pushed up beyond their reach.
Sadly, that will also include all the people who were worth that salary before the minimum wage was raised.
Rather than help grow the middle class, it would destroy much of it.
and the yut unemployment rate will raise to ???
Typical liberal a$$hole. They have no clue what it is like to run a business. In their “minds” all businesses exploit workers and the government must take them over.
In communist dogma, all the means of production must be in the hands of the government.
So, the guy standing on the corner wearing headphones and waving a sign for pizza or apartment rentals is worth $22/hr? Damn, she’s dumb.
To the rest of the country, I sincerely apologize for my state sending this retarded mule to Congress.
It’s a trick; she’s trying to make nine bucks an hour sound really reasonable.